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541.
by mruts 7y ago
This is just false. Approximately only 2% of American workers are paid minimum wage. Everyone else makes more.
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by mruts 7y ago
30% of households have an aggregate net worth above 250k. So the situation GP in describing is probably very common.
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by mruts 7y ago
I dunno, I like working. I don't think I would want to go on an extended period without working hard. In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/627711
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by mruts 7y ago
Just tried it out! Pretty great. Reminds me a conkeror a lot. One nitpick though: I feel like you should be able to open a new buffer with C-x C-f, and maybe open in the same buffer with C-x f? C-l in emacs centers the text on where your cu
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by mruts 7y ago
If you care about null safety, why not just use Scala? I've programmed Scala professionally for a long time and have never ever experienced a null pointer exception.
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by mruts 7y ago
That’s awesome. Does it support any ad blockers? Or would I have to go with a dns solution?
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by mruts 7y ago
I was reading some papers about the detrimental the effect of weed on working memory. So I decided to stop smoking a week after that. Surprisingly, my cognitive performance declined severely for a period of a couple weeks, as measured by du
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by mruts 7y ago
I used to use Conkeror, but it hasn't seen any development in a longtime. Hopefully this is or something else will be able to take it's place and eventually implement basic features that for some reason or another no current web b
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by mruts 7y ago
This isn't actually true. Those who have more income spend much more money on drugs. I used to smoke weed all day everyday for 10 years, and knew a ton of others that did so. None of us were poor, all had good jobs and made good income
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by mruts 7y ago
What are you talking about?
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by mruts 7y ago
No one uses Storm anymore. It was Spark that killed Storm, not the other way around.
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by mruts 7y ago
Sorry I meant “efficient”
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by mruts 7y ago
I personally consider one of the most advanced and useful languages around. Good performance, insanely expressive, along with all the benefits of the JVM. There’s very few projects in which Scala wouldn’t be a good choice.
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by mruts 7y ago
There’s a lot of scala teams around, especially in finance.
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by mruts 7y ago
Many/most AI/quant/data science people aren't exactly the best developers. Often these kinds of people only know one or two different languages and aren't really interested in programming "correctly" in th
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by mruts 7y ago
One of my best friends worked at the NSA, then the CIA. Smart guy. Unfortunately he got charged for Vault7 leaks and is going to spend the rest of his life in jail. So, in short, don’t work for them. It might seem cool, but it’s not worth i
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, are there startups that have a demo a week or two after they are created? Because the article is saying that correct software is cheaper on every timescale past that.
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by mruts 7y ago
There have been some papers published about languages and unsurprisingly, FP languages come out as the most time inefficient while Java comes last, even after C. I’m not sure how they controlled for experience/skill as the Java develop
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by mruts 7y ago
Could you elaborate on why business apps are different from other apps? Is one an easier problem than the other? Are they fundamentally different?
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by mruts 7y ago
If you don't have axiomatic beliefs, then where do your beliefs come from? Some abstract feeling? Whatever "feels" right? Clearly (to me at least), you need a system of axiomatic beliefs. If your axioms don't form a cohe
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by mruts 7y ago
I’m not sure how I feel about facial recognition. On one hand, I think code is just information and no piece of information should be illegal to possess. I also think we need to protect our rights with math and code not laws. But I’m not su
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by mruts 7y ago
Instead of being paid by the hour, why don’t they just pay salaries? Then they can have everyone work longer hours without cheating them overtime.
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, thousands of people are highly concurrent while computers are not, so I don’t think the analogy really holds. If you had people as “functions” and organized them like a computer program, only maybe one person out of a thousand would
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by mruts 7y ago
I developed a graphical drag and drop bioinformatics app for the biologists at the hospital I used to work at. I’m not sure if it was more efficient than a command line for a skilled practitioner, but it ended up working pretty well all thi
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, that’s exactly what the Curry-Howard Isomorphism says: that math and programming are equivalent. Both can express and are equivalent to Turing machines.
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by mruts 7y ago
Isn’t that just a narrative pushed by RT as Russian propaganda?
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by mruts 7y ago
Why do you think there’s alpha there?
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by mruts 7y ago
Instead of worrying about money all the time, people should probably just be saving and investing their money. Even on minimum wage it's possible to save a little bit every month provided you are willing to sacrifice other things for i
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, why should they? Clearly Google thinks how they do things is in the best interest of their shareholders. Maybe you could argue that contractors are detracting from shareholder value because their interests aren't aligned, but t
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by mruts 7y ago
I dunno the head of HR at my old company used to work as a cashier at Urban Outfitters...

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